Cloudant is the database for all our mobile applications with offline-first architecture, and it's the best option to keep everything synced and secure. This is the best way to use CouchDB, because Cloudant adds the authorization layer required for a real live app, and also the infinite capacity with the flexibility to grow from $0 to whatever is required according to the amount of users you need to support. Also, we have now using Cloudant as the main database for data capture apps and the source for all our catalogs in order to free resources from our rdbms system. Finally, considering CouchDB is part of Bluemix, you will have the chance to grow, adding on more services for your app.,Authentication improved with the API keys Synchronization with https, which means secure and trustable syncs Scale in a transparent way Free start with the $50 allowance makes Cloudant the best way to start,It would be nice to have a way to import bulk data There must be a better way to check usage. There are a lot of transactions not shown in the actual report There must be a way to reset a db -- a way to set the actual data as the base and eliminate all deleted docs,10,Positive: you can start your app at 0$ cost. After that, you can combine Cloud data with local Couchdb servers for heavy operations as export to RDBMS Negative: moving from lite to standard pricing plan requires to restart your app,CouchDB and Couchbase Server,50,2,Catalog server. All "combos" and list in apps are calling data from a Cloudant/PouchDb Data capture database. Apps for data input, use Cloudant/Pouchdb as the first storage server data segmentation. Some apps access only to the data they need,Data Capture, because Cloudant write operations are faster. After that, we use the /changes feed to get the info back to our RDBMS As a Cache, kind of distributed redis service in order to free up resources in our main rdbms server we combine Cloudant and couchdb/pouchdb in order to minimize the use of cloud services, mainly for /changes feed access,Cloudant partitioned will allow us to consolidate several Dbs in one search indexes is something we are evaluating,8,CouchDB, Apache Web Server, Google Analytics, Node, Oracle Database 12c,Implemented in-house,Yes,Change management was a minor issue with the implementation,Data rules must be well coordinated between several components to avoid data inconsistency Synchronization rules must be tested "out" because there is nothing like a sandbox,8,Online training Self-taught,8,Yes, Cloudant is easy to understand without trainning. This is the suggested approach to start. The formal trainning will give you the order how to proceed with your project. Anyway, consider not just the formal education. There are a lot of projects and examples how to use Cloudant not just in lab environments that you can use as is and then modify to your needs.,replication data browsing query via http interfase,security settings on database filtered replication rules data events rules,No,9,10It is being used as a noSQL database across the organization for big data analytics and is used amongst other things for text analytics as it permits unlimited index fields.,Coudant allows unlimited secondary index fields when compared to others that have certain limitations. Cloudant also has the ability to do bi-directional sync for replication and synchronization. Cloudant can run on bare metal and virtual machines. Cloudant can also be deployed in multi-user or private cloud environments. very easy to program and build apps,Sometimes, there are no slower response times [than] when trying to pull records - I mean that slowness is in terms of milli-seconds :-) I wish it has in memory computing capability XML is still not supported by this product,9,We wanted a highly scalable and flexbile (loosely structured) data base that was fast in response and one that could run on bare metal and/or virtual machines. The fact that it is schema-less makes it easy to get staged and started. In addition analytics for the development environment and prouction environment is augmented with the help of couchDB server analytics.,Yes, we have achieved time/agility to deploy and scale up with fast query response times. Also, in order to process multiple concurrent requests, we have done an integration between the master data management solution (MDM) and Cloudant so that Cloudant also acts as a cache for faster response. The biggest benefit was the saving in hardware investment + cost of server build to get this data base up and running.,We have used Cloudant to develop a cross-platform mobile app with html5 that can work both online and offline - it is a very responsive enterprise productivity app used internally. We have integrated Cloudant with master data management solution for concurrent service queries by users including mobile users where by Requests made to MDM and sent to Cloudant Cache for faster processing/updation.,savings in initial hardware cost as well cost of server build to be ready to load data base Cloudant was the first truly cloud based database solution implemented by in our organization and hence lots of effort went in to make it a success so that it can be a role model for cloud adoption in the organization,CouchDB and Cassandra,DB2,500,3,as a noSQL data base for big data analytics As a caching solution as a graph data base,integration with master data management solution (MDM) so that Cloudant can act as a cache for a faster response to multiple requests made to the data base at the same time,fully leverage the graph database capability of Cloudant,No,Change management was minimal,Ability to load data quickly,9,9,9,9We use Cloudant as our online cloud database solution for our mobile health app. Our solution had to work cross platform with Android and iOS and allow syncing to local databases for offline use. Cloudant allowed for easy integration into our stack with very little setup. By not having to worry about converting between database architectures we were able to focus our development time on building features into our app.,Easy Setup Simple API's Great Documentation Open Standards / Works with CouchDB and mobile PouchDB,Built in live listeners to watch for data changes would be a nice addition,10,Our mobile app runs on a wide variety of devices, many only supporting SQL databases to limited capacity, and some are under-powered for their use in offline storage modes. It was very important our app be usable offline but still have the most current medical information available to update when connection was re-established. The types of queries being conducted on older and under powered devices lead a NoSQL solution in our stack as a positive choice to enhance the user experience. Ultimately the ability to sync without converting data structures between 4 completely different technologies has been the greatest benefit of using Cloudant for our NoSQL solution,9,We have saved a tremendous amount of time. Cloudant works out of the box with practically no setup to create your first database. The time it would take me to just spool up a AWS server is the amount of time it takes to start putting data into your DB. I would spend hours more installing node/git/couch on a linux AWS server, configuring ports and routing tables, not to mention time updating and maintaining the server (both from an O/S security standpoint and from database management perspective). IBM Cloudant really just made it simple to check off DBaaS off our production todo list.,Firebase and Amazon DynamoDB,Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), IBM Bluemix, OpenShift, GitHub, NetBeans, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), GoDaddy, FatCow, Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, Mixpanel, HeapCloudant NoSQL DB based on JSON is the foundation of our SaaS software solutions proposed in SaaS when the aim is document centric. Our last implementation was the Tracking & Tracing service offered in SaaS via IBM Bluemix, where all actors authorized can post their JSON docs in a very easy way without the constraint of one specific schema, and can retrieve or update the documents with RESTFul APIs that trace the "status" of each document. Cloudant's flexibility helps in adding the data "views" even after the document creation, and this opens a new way to design documents, freeing them from relational constraints. The replication function allows you to have in real time the same copy of docs updated in other Cloudant databases - even geographically distributed. Some interesting embedded features such as the Geo Query, based on the standard Geo-JSON specification, open the way to the development of location awareness solutions without the hassles to manage the geometry of the geo-map searching.,Managing different documents in JSON format: every well formed structure of JSON docs are stored without a previous data schema support. Queu reviews: are the power map-reduce functions applying after the documents ingestion. Replication: powerful and easy DevOps function to save, copy or back up the data from one Cloudant DB to another in synchronizing way even between different sites geographically distributed. The automatic creation of Data Warehouse relational DB DashDB for Analytics from NoSQL is one of the [most] invaluable features ever found. The SDP-Schema Discovery Process is really unleashing the power of JSON schema-less into structured relational DB ready for all analytic tools without any programming intervention. The API GEO call based on GeoJSON structure, is one of the features that has been much more awaited in the "location awareness" application now implicit in quite all applications from marketing to logistics. The GEO API is built by the query options making the geo search application integration more easy than ever.,To have a sort of LUW - Logical Unit Work when many documents are involved into a single update process. The changing of one document is related to its status information but it must be synchronized with all the other documents involved in the process.,10,Using a traditional application based on a relational DB schema would have been impossible due to the agnostic nature of our application where all stakeholders can insert documents with own data inside without any support by DB Administrators. We have defined a specific tag "Custom Fields" where data can be accepted with content and different structures (JSON formatted of course) controlled by the Cloudant engine itself. The schema-less nature of Cloudant was the winning choice against other traditional solutions where any new data structure has to be pre-defined.,10,We have achieved huge time savings! The only action we do is verify that the system is up and running in normal fashion, because we no longer have to perform all the tasks covered by the "as-a-service" formula.,CouchDB, Couchbase Server and MongoDB,IBM dashDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQLCloudant started off as our database backup system, replicating from our production servers to the Cloudant service. We were configured to fail over to them in the event of a local database outage. Cloudant's uptime and search features were so impressive, we switched over to using them as our primary backbone, with replication now going to a different set of servers. Cloudant delivered a high level of service, and we were able to grow as a result.,Outstanding query interface Full text searching! Remarkable uptime and support,I would love to able to have more performance advice on my database.,10,When we were spec'ing out the product that we needed to build, we realized that we were going to have free-form document-oriented data coming in. We were dealing with invoices, and that meant that an arbitrary set of fields and values was going to occur on each and every document. Cloudant's CouchDB backbone made storing, editing, and reading that data easy.,10,Absolutely. Prior to starting with Cloudant, I was spending at least 1-2 hours per week on the DevOps requirements and responsibilities of maintaining my existing self-hosted CouchDB solution. Switching to Cloudant meant that my administration time went from two hours to about five minutes per week double-checking that replication was happening. And it always was. I checked in because it was the responsible thing to do, not because I had any worries about Cloudant's capabilities or service.,In this scenario, the beauty of Cloudant’s utilization of CouchDB’s HTTP API is apparent. Your mobile app can use your Cloudant instance as its backend data source, completely removing the need to have a separate backend to serve up user and product data to the individual clients. This can save on development and deployment time, developer cost, and allow you a flexibility to iterate the mobile client without having to invest infrastructure and devops costs into heavy iteration of your API service. Cloudant provides clean, secure, and fast access to your company’s data.,irisCouch and mlab,Bluehost, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), PostgreSQLWe use Cloudant with ACRA to track errors from our different mobile apps. Through Cloudant our company was able to optimize our workflow and make our apps better.,Cloudant is cloud. Through Cloudant our company was able to connect all of our services into a single database in a very easy and faster way. This made our maintenance and analysis about our services much easier. Cloudant is elastic. This is very important in business today. We spend only what we really need and have used. Nothing more. Cloudant is very easy. Our company was able to connect Cloudant with all of our services and apps very easily. In a few weeks Cloudant was completely integrated to our services.,Our company team is completely integrated with Cloudant. The service is great and any new feature will be welcome.,10,Yes. Since we have many differents data types and sources, our company was not able to use a traditional database solution. NoSQL on the other hand proved that is very flexible as a solution for many problems, and after our team took the same studies and technical tests, we decided use a NoSQL solution. Another feature that we love in NoSQL is its flexibility. Many types of businesses change fast nowadays, and a database solution that is able to follow these changes is a very important key for achieving success.,10,Yes, we had a lot of time savings since we started using Cloudant. The impact was about a 15%-19% time savings. Our team now can focus more time on the things that really matter for our company, and of course improve our services and products and make then better and better every day.,Here at Techood Mobile we focus on developing Android applications, so as our apps have a big user interaction, we needed a solution that could make easy to store and analyses all of the data. Cloudant is easy for us and fit perfectly to our needs. All user data (comments, geo data, clicks, loadings, etc) generated in the apps goes to Cloudant, since the Cloudant cloud database is a very fast and flexible solution to store unstructured data. All data is then analyzed to improve the user experience inside the apps. With Cloudant we were able to reduce the time and the cost in all this process, thus we can focus our efforts in the user expirience.,Google Analytics, PayPal Payments, MySQL, dbForge Studio for MySQL, AdMob, Facebook for Business, CloudantWe currently use Cloudant to store call detail records for our faxing platform. The platform itself stores these records, but the API is not easy to query. So we take every single record and store them in Cloudant. This includes not only the basic sender and receiver information, but also per minute costs for each fax. This allows us to easily present incoming and outgoing faxes to our users via our client portal. It's also great for the billing department in that they can quickly query the recordings for profit and cost analysis.,It stores a very large amount of information very efficiently. Granted, we're just storing call detail records, but we're storing 200K records in 50MB. Querying isn't as fancy as SQL-based databases. But if you know what you need and can get it in a view, it is very fast. I'm querying both date and phone number without any issues. The UI for managing your databases is top notch. We can build views and searches, and query those with issues. This lets us refine and perfect our JS functions and queries very easily.,Search Queries. They work when they work, but some of the documentation is a tad confusing and the bookmark system of pagination is not great.,9,I already knew about Cloudant before choosing it as our solution. I've always had issues with MySQL and others choking at 10K records, and I had no desire to be a DBA. So after looking over a few options, I felt that Cloudant fit our needs best. It's mix of JSON documents and view system fit perfectly the kind of data I needed to store and query.,10,Yes. The impact is that I'm not spending all day every day looking at database servers, and adding and scaling database servers. I never worry about system performance, or tuning, or scaling resources. That means a lot to me when I'm not just doing fax data storage, but also developing a client portal, and troubleshooting phone systems. I have enough to manage, and it's nice not to have to manage this.,MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra and Riak,InfluxDB, LogicMonitor, MySQL,5,1,Call Detail Record Storage Billing Data Storage Faxing Data,I use complex keys with Cloudant views to query not just CDRs by phone, but by date as well. Range queries on views are great!,I would really like to integrate it with InfluxDB and some monitoring software to create a more performant and efficient monitoring platform. Many software out there like to use ElasticSearch, but ElasticSearch is very costly resource-wise.,No,Price Product Features Product Usability,I would not change a thing. The core problem arose when querying for fax data would bring down our client portal on every single load. The fax server just refused to cooperate. Then and now, there are few products that would do what I need for little upfront costs. Most would require that I self-host, which I do not have time for.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,Getting queries working correctly. I was new to how views worked so I went down the full text path only to find it didn't quite worked out how I thought. Then I realize that phone numbers are just long number and went that route with ranged keys on views.,10,No,8,No,It does what it says on the box. Stores data, retrieves data, queries data with Map/Reduce and full text search.,Full text search can be really tricky to get working correctly. It works, but then you find it's not quite querying the way you expect it.,Yes, but I don't use it,9Cloudant allows us to scale our data layer without worrying about the operations side of things to manage such a big cluster. Cloudant is the main database system for our company. It's totally business critical for our company and our many customers rely on its performance on a daily basis to perform their work.,Scale your data layer without issues. Great support team. Great documentation.,The Dashboard application is really slow and very hard to use to do any hard work. No playground environment to test some very large map/reduce queries (and therefore any changes in the design have to reindex the whole DB). Besides being slow, the Dashboard is actually less usable.,9,Because of replication capabilities, our entire system is architected around this. Cloudant brings the CouchDB interface, but scales it to a new level. Earlier, we used the Heroku provided multi-tenant Cloudant connector, which got discontinued. Now, we have migrated to a dedicated cluster which has brought us the required level of support and scalability.,9,Yes, it allows us not to worry about the data layer, which is really why we choose for the multi-tenant solution, despite its quite aggressive price-tag (for startup standards).,,Heroku, Segment.io, Mixpanel, Logentries, New Relic APM, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA Software, Travis CI,10,,Storing the business transactions performed offline Storing usage metrics Storing content configuration documents Reporting on all of the above.,Distributed replications Waiting on some really cool use cases for DashDB.,More reporting with DashDB. More ad-hoc reporting. Much more storage of data. Automatic archiving of the database (e.g. like Amazon Glacier) would be a killer feature.,No,Product Features Prior Experience with the Product Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor,No, we are happy with the service. The selection process was very simple since we were already using Cloudant through the Heroku connector (which was unexpectedly terminated, to be honest).,Implemented in-house,Change management was a minor issue with the implementation,Designing the documents to be scalable. (Manually) sharding of the document on many databases was a key design decision for us (we shard per "day"), so that we can more replicate back and forth. Designing performing views for large amounts of document (ad-hoc reporting) is very tricky.,9,Yes,9,Yes,Our account contact director Chris Snow is helping us to develop some extensions to Cloudant Sync during his free time.,Editing the docs in the dashboard Writing ad-hoc queries Permissions management,The Dashboard is slow and takes time to load many databases. Writing a new map/reduce view indexes the entire DB for every change. In Couchbase, you have a feature to create a view for a subset of the data, this is very convenient.,9We decided to use Cloudant to implement an error handling database using ACRA on our Android Applications. First we tested it with a new application; after our first experience we decided to use it across all developments. We needed a repository suited for ACRA to alert on any crashes our applications could experience. We looked for information and Cloudant's name appeared.,Fair cost and possibility to stay on free usage program. High availability. Our databases never ever experienced falls. Fair documentation access. We could find tutorials across the web.,The learning curve could be a little tough if used for first time. UI could be redundant and unintuitive in some cases (at least about 1 year ago). Little integration with other tools,9,We didn't choose a NoSQL solution over a traditional database: we used both. Our applications need a transactional database for our main business cases, but there were some use cases that required another way to implement in order to achieve results and performance. That's why we decided to use the best of the both approaches.,10,Yes. In fact Cloudant did all for us. We stored the data and never have to monitor it. The reports are built practically alone. If another approach were used, we needed to do all for ourselves expending more time and resources to achieve the same results. This lately translates into benefits for the company.,Cloudant, as a leader in management and NoSQL DBaaS, gives new programmers in this architecture and infrastructure in general ease of having a non-relational database in the cloud. In my experience, Cloudant is especially useful in situations where it is advisable to have an auxiliary database that must be live exploited for reporting. Recommended success cases are referred to management auditing and logging. For example, you could use libraries like ACRA within mobile applications to redirect all errors and ANR that users might have and display them in real time on a web interface. Implementing this type of architecture has given me better results than Google Play utility. Similarly you can register in Cloudant logging records that are very useful in stages of development and testing, or information access applications: number of installations, upgrades, user loging.,Amazon DynamoDB,Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Web Services,Creating databases Integrate with external tools (services),Managing users. Replication. We need to get the concept first.,7Cloudant is being used widely in our company across several projects while some of our classified data is still stored on our self-managed servers. DBaaS does save lots of work on deployment and maintenance, moreover, since most of our projects are hosted with Softlayer, where Cloudant hosts with as well, the network latency between our servers and Cloudant doesn't have significant impacts. In addition, NoSQL introduces a new way to make the query and big data storage easier with the understandable API context, programmers who are not familiar with database operations can still figure out the logic at the data processing part.,DBaaS means there is no need to deploy your own servers, which saves you the initial investment on hardwares. Cloudant uses JSON as storage data format, which is commonly supported by all languages. As a result, no cost on data conversion. Owing to the relationship between Cloudant and IBM, they can always get the best support and discounts for customers. For example, choosing Cloudant single tenant plan with hosting at Softlayer, there will be some discounts for you.,The single tenant plan seems to be expensive for some SMEs - data size may not reach the half of its minimum storage size, however, multi-tenant makes them feel unsafe for their business information. The query language is not friendly for developers who are just moved from the SQL (MySQL, MSSQL...etc). It requires totally different skills.,7,There is no absolute answers for which database solution is the best one, only the most suitable. NoSQL provides a relative flexible method to manage the data, for example, comparing to the traditional SQL, adding a new data doesn't require you to pre-define the columns and its types. However, SQL offers a powerful and more friendly relational JOIN method which cannot be realized in NoSQL. The NoSQL solution is widely used in our projects while the normal SQL is still working as another role to process our other data.,7,Cloudant does provide the services which can reduce lots of work loads on database management. Through the API of it, we can integrate into our self-developed infrastructure management system. Compared to deploying our own SQL servers, at least there is no need to make the hardware and system health check regularly.,Amazon DynamoDB,Nginx, Lua, Oracle DaaS, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, Redis Cloud

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August 29, 2019

Best for mobile

Victor Pease Solano

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February 22, 2019

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About IBM Cloudant

IBM Cloudant is a distributed database that is optimized for handling heavy workloads that are typical of large, fast-growing web and mobile apps. Available as an SLA-backed, fully managed IBM Cloud service, Cloudant elastically scales throughput and storage independently. Cloudant is also available as a downloadable on-premises installation, and its API and powerful replication protocol are compatible with an open source ecosystem that includes CouchDB, PouchDB and libraries for the most popular web and mobile development stacks.

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